Shrek Forever After has slain the girls from Sex And The City 2 to score a second week at number one in the battle of the U.S. box office.
The animated 3D movie reigned supreme with takings of $43.3 million, beating Sex and the City 2's opening gross of $32.1 million, based on ticket sales over the three-day weekend.
The romantic comedy, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall, grossed an extra $14.2 million from midnight screenings on Wednesday night and showings on Thursday to bring its total up to $46.3 million.
However, the additional sales are not included in the chart tallies for America's Memorial Day weekend and the grand total still falls short of the $56.8 million the original debuted with in 2008.
Jake Gyllenhaal's Disney action/adventure Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time enters at three with $30.1 million, while Iron Man 2 slips to fourth position and Robin Hood rounds out the new top five at five.
Action remake Clash Of The Titans has conquered the competition at the U.S. box office, debuting at number one with $61.4 million in earnings this the weekend.
The blockbuster, starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes, has made a total of $64.1 million in the U.S. including preview screenings on Thursday night.
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? was runner-up with $30.2 million in ticket sales - marking a triumph for singer/actress Janet Jackson, who went to work on the comedy just a day after her brother, the late Michael Jackson, was laid to rest in June.
Meanwhile, animated adventure How to Train Your Dragon slipped from the top spot to three with $29.2 million, and now boasts a 10-day total of $92.3 million.
Miley Cyrus' new drama The Last Song debuted at number four with $16.2 million, while Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland slipped from two to five with nearly $8.3 million in earnings. Burton's whimsical collaboration with Johnny Depp now boasts a five-week total of nearly $309.8 million.
Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller Shutter Island is driving movie fans crazy - the film has topped the U.S. box office chart for a second consecutive week.
The new movie, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a U.S. marshal investigating the disappearance of a patient at a prison for the criminally insane, has scored another $22.2 million, taking its 10-day total to $75.1 million.
Bruce Willis' police comedy Cop Out debuts at number two with an impressive $18.6 million and horror film The Crazies, a remake of George Romero's 1973 movie, is another new entry at three after taking $16.5 million.
Director James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar continues to make headlines - the film is in fourth place with earnings of $14 million, taking its total domestic haul to a whopping $706.9 million, more than two months after its release.
Pierce Brosnan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief rounds out the new box office chart top five.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's Shutter Island is thrilling cinemagoers - the movie has topped the U.S. box office chart, taking $40.2 million during its debut weekend.
The director and star's fourth collaboration, which stars DiCaprio as a U.S. marshal investigating the disappearance of a patient at an insane asylum, is the best opening for the pair yet.
Their last Oscar-winning film, The Departed, debuted at $26.9 million in 2006. They previously worked together on Gangs of New York and The Aviator.
Meanwhile, star-studded romantic comedy Valentine's Day slipped to number two, with takings of $17.2 million. The Garry Marshall film, which stars Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher and Bradley Cooper, now boasts a 10-day total of $87.4 million.
James Cameron's Avatar remains strong at three with $16.1 million - two months after its debut. The sci-fi sensation's record-breaking U.S. total tallies in at $687.8 million. Worldwide, the film has taken in $2.47 billion.
Rounding out the top five are Pierce Brosnan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Benicio Del Toro's The Wolfman, with total earnings of $15.3 million and $9.8 million respectively.
Garry Marshall's star-studded Valentine's Day movie has won over the hearts of theater goers to debut atop the ox office chart with takings of $52.4 million.
Cupid struck on St. Valentine's Day weekend as millions flocked to watch the romantic comedy, which stars Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher and Bradley Cooper, among others.
The box office figures are expected to swell by the end of Monday as film fans take advantage of the Presidents Day holiday and three-day weekend.
Valentine's Day has already smashed the previous Presidents Day weekend record of $52 million set by Ghost Rider in 2007.
Meanwhile, Pierce Brosnan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief enters at two with $31.1 million, while Benicio Del Toro's The Wolfman grossed $30.6 million in its opening weekend to claim third place.
James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster Avatar remains strong at four and last week's number one movie, Dear John, rounds out the top five in fifth position.
Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried’s Dear John has taken the top spot at the box office this week, knocking out Avatar from its seven-week reign.
Dear John took in an estimated $32.4 million this weekend, according to Variety, while Avatar took in $23.6 million.
Coming in third was John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers‘ From Paris With Love.
James Cameron's Avatar has surpassed the $2 billion mark at the international box office - just days after it broke the record held by the director's 1997 drama Titanic.
Cameron's 3D sci-fi spectacular smashed the $1.843 billion record last weekend, and became the best-selling international release of all time.
According to executives at 20th Century Fox, Avatar has grossed $2.039 billion after seven weekends at the top of the charts in the U.S.
The film is an early Oscar favorite ahead of Tuesday's nominations - 12 years after Titanic won gold. The historical drama picked up 14 nominations and won 11 awards including best picture, director and editing for Cameron in 1998.
James Cameron's Avatar has made movie history by overtaking his previous box-office blockbuster Titanic as the best-selling international release of all time.
Cameron's 3D sci-fi spectacular has replaced his 1997 historical drama at the top of the movie theatre charts by bringing in a massive $1.84 billion in ticket sales worldwide during its unbroken six-week reign.
Titanic, which won a staggering 11 Academy Awards, racked up $1.84 billion at the box office between 1997 and 1998.
Avatar overtook Titanic this weekend by pulling in another $36 million at theatres worldwide.
Blockbuster Avatar has maintained its tight grip on the top spot at the U.S. Box office for the sixth week running - taking $36 million in the past week.
James Cameron's 3D adventure has now earned $552 million in America, putting it within touching distance of the current box office record holder, the director's 1997 epic Titanic - which took $601 million.
Paul Bettany's post-apocalypse thriller Legion took $18.2 million to secure second place, ahead of Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman's The Book of Eli.
The week's big disappointment was Harrison Ford drama Extraordinary Measures, which took just $7 million during its opening weekend.
Avatar has become the first film since 1999's The Sixth Sense to spend five weeks at the top of the U.S. box office after fighting off competition from Denzel Washington's new action film The Book Of Eli.
James Cameron's sci-fi epic, which claimed six honors at the Critics Choice Movie Awards on Friday night, has now passed Star Wars to become the third biggest-grossing film in America. The movie is already the second most successful movie of all-time globally, behind Cameron's Titanic.
Avatar grossed another $41.3 million at the U.S. box office at the weekend - $10 million more than The Book of Eli, which opened in second place.
The Lovely Bones made its wide-release debut and comes in at three on the new countdown, while Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and Sherlock Holmes round out the new top five.
James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar is on course to smash the director's previous box office record after pulling in another $48.5 million to remain atop the U.S. box office chart.
The 3D movie has now taken $429 million in the U.S. alone since its December release and is currently the second biggest grossing film of all time, with global takings of $1.34 billion - placing it only behind Cameron's Titanic, which holds the record with $1.8 billion.
Meanwhile, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes trails behind in second place with $16.6 million and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel sits at number three after bringing in another $16.3 million.
Ethan Hawke's vampire thriller Daybreakers debuts at four with $15 million and Leap Year is another new entry at five - the romantic comedy opened with $9.2 million.
Moviemaker James Cameron can now boast the top two grossing films of all time - only his Titanic has made more at the box office than new movie Avatar.
The sci-fi epic has made over $1.14 billion globally since its release in December, relegating former number two blockbuster, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, to third on the all-time money-making list.
Avatar is only the fifth film to make more than $1 billion at the box office. Cameron's Titanic made $1.8 billion.
The latest box office news comes as the filmmaker celebrates a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film at the Directors Guild Awards.
In the eyes of U.S. movie theater owners, Sandra Bullock shined as 2009's top Hollywood star at the boxoffice, as the actress scored with audiences after a two-year absence from screens.
Quigley Publishing Co.'s annual list released on Thursday of top money making stars, based on a poll of hundreds of theater executives, had Bullock beat out such stars as George Clooney and Denzel Washington, on the strength of her roles in "The Proposal" and "The Blind Side."
Romantic comedy "The Proposal" made $315 million at worldwide boxoffices after its June release, and football drama "The Blind Side" has made $193 million only in the U.S. and Canada since its Nov. 20 release, with its rollout in other countries still to come.
Bullock, who also starred in the 2009 comedy "All About Steve" with its $34 million take in the U.S. and Canada, is the eighth woman to top Quigley's list of top money-making stars, which the company has put out each year since 1932.
Quigley Publishing said the list does not rank stars only on how much cash their films made, but on what theater owners say about who attracts audiences on their star power alone.
For instance, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" was the top movie at U.S. and Canada boxoffices in 2009 with more than $400 million, but many in Hollywood attribute that to the appeal of the franchise itself and the toys it's based on.
The last woman to top Quigley's list was Julia Roberts in 1999. She failed to make Quigley's 2009 top 10 this year, after her turn in romantic comedy "Duplicity" bombed at the boxoffice.
Bullock scored her first smash hit with 1994 action movie "Speed" and became one of Hollywood's biggest stars, but before "The Proposal" she had not starred in a film since 2007.
"Public Enemies" star Johnny Depp came in at No. 2 on Quigley's top 10 list, followed by Matt Damon, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf and Denzel Washington.
A strong Christmas Day at the U.S. box office didn't give Sherlock Holmes the push it needed to dethrone James Cameron's sci-fi love story Avatar over the weekend.
The humans vs. aliens movie, starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, scored a second week at the top of the chart with a stunning $75 million three-day take.
The weekend estimate gives the film a 10-day total of $212.3 million in America alone. The film made a worldwide splash last week when it scored a $232.2 million opening weekend.
After beating Avatar on Christmas Day, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes failed to keep up, but it's $65.4 million opening was still $15 million more than experts predicted.
Family film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has come in third after another strong Christmas weekend showing - it raked in $50.2 million over the three days.
Christmas weekend served up the biggest U.S. filmgoing weekend in recent history.
Estimated total theatrical receipts of $278 million from Friday to Sunday in the U.S. and Canada weren't just the largest ever recorded, according to Box Office at http://www.hollywood.com/, but also the highest number of tickets ever sold in a three-day period.
The next four biggest box-office weekends were all dominated by one picture that grossed well over $100 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.
James Cameron's computer-generated epic Avatar has blown away box-office competition - after cinema goers braved blizzard conditions across the U.S. boost ticket sales to $73 million.
The human-alien love story, starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, took in another $159.2 million overseas in its opening weekend.
The film's worldwide total comes in at $232.2 million - a boost for Cameron and studio bosses at Twentieth Century-Fox, who spent an estimated $400 million to make and market the film.
Avatar pushed last week's number one movie, Disney's The Princess and the Frog, to second place. The animated film raked in $44.8 million.
Meanwhile, Sandra Bullock's The Blind Side slipped from two to three, with $10 million in earnings in its fifth week.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant's comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans? opened up at number four with $7 million.
Vampire franchise The Twilight Saga: New Moon also fell from four to five, taking in another $4.4 million, which brings the film's five-week total to $267.3 million.
Sandra Bullock's real-life football movie The Blind Side has scored another touchdown - toppling the vampires and werewolves of the Twilight sequel to claim the top film spot in the U.S.
The film, chronicling the well-to-do Touhy family's decision to adopt homeless African-American Michael Oher and help steer him to glory on the sports field, has been second to The Twilight Saga: New Moon for the past two weeks, but now it has taken it's place at number one on the box office countdown.
The movie, which also stars country singer Tim McGraw, made an estimated $20.4 million over the weekend to take it's three-week tally to a staggering $129 million.
The Twilight sequel has slipped to second with $15.7 million and Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire's hard-hitting new movie Brothers debuts at three with a $9.7 million opening weekend.
Robert De Niro's new movie, Everybody's Fine, has become the latest box office flop - it just made the top 10 at nine with a disappointing $4 million opening.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon is at the top of the U.S. box office for the second consecutive week, taking North American ticket sales into a record-breaking five-day Thanksgiving weekend.
The Twilight sequel, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, boasts $66 million in earnings over the five-day holiday period, including a three-day haul of $42.5 million taken from Friday through Sunday.
Total movie ticket sales in North America over the Thanksgiving period amounted to $278 million, breaking a previous record of $244 million set in 2000 - when How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Unbreakable were the two top films
New Moon now boasts a staggering worldwide total of just under $475 million.
Sandra Bullock's drama The Blind Side took in $40.1 million over the weekend, bringing its own two-week total to $100.3 million.
Disaster film 2012 followed at three with $18 million in profits in three days.
Rounding out the top five are Robin Williams and John Travolta's comedy Old Dogs and Disney's A Christmas Carol, taking in $16.8 million and $16 million.
Twilight sequel New Moon has shot to the top of the U.S. box office, sucking the competition dry and earning a staggering $140.7 million in its opening week of release.
The vampire adventure achieved the third highest American debut of all time - taking $258.8 million worldwide, after opening in 26 countries.
New Moon isn't the only box office success story, Sandra Bullock's The Blind Side - the true story of American football prodigy Michael Oher - opened with an impressive $34.5 million.
John Cusack's disaster film 2012 followed with $26.5 million.
Planet 51 and Disney's A Christmas Carol round out the top five with $12.6 million and $12.23 million respectively.
Fantasy film" Where The Wild Things Are" has marched to the top of the U.S. box office, taking $32.5 million in its opening weekend. Director Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book boasts a castlist including James Gandolfini, Forest Whitaker and Chris Cooper.
The animated adventure easily beat Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler thriller "Law Abiding Citizen" into second place, but the movie - another box office debutant, still managed an impressive $21.3 million.
Low budget horror film "Paranormal Activity" jumped up the chart to third place, taking $20.2 million, ahead of Couples Retreat and The Stepfather, which round out the top five.
Shrek Forever After has slain the girls from Sex And The City 2 to score a second week at number one in the battle of the U.S. box office.
